Hi
I'll be filing MFJ. I work as a full-time employee and not self-employed. My wife is a part-time employee. Along with this, for a few hours each week, she teaches a foreign language via a nonprofit org. Although she gets paid a small amount for teaching the language, she does it more as a hobby. She has been doing this since Sep 2008. She received a 1099-Misc from this nonprofit Org. When I put in her 1099-Misc income into Turbo-tax, it treated this as her 'Business income'. This kicked in the self-employment tax.
Should the 1099-Misc be treated as her business-income? How should it be handled instead?
Thanks
Raj
I'll be filing MFJ. I work as a full-time employee and not self-employed. My wife is a part-time employee. Along with this, for a few hours each week, she teaches a foreign language via a nonprofit org. Although she gets paid a small amount for teaching the language, she does it more as a hobby. She has been doing this since Sep 2008. She received a 1099-Misc from this nonprofit Org. When I put in her 1099-Misc income into Turbo-tax, it treated this as her 'Business income'. This kicked in the self-employment tax.
Should the 1099-Misc be treated as her business-income? How should it be handled instead?
Thanks
Raj